The BG News March 21, 2002

The BGSU campus student newspaper March 21, 2002. Volume 89 - Issue 41https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/7934/thumbnail.jp

From damsel in distress to active agent : female agency in children\u27s and young adult fiction.

This dissertation analyzes the different ways in which female characters in children’s and young adult fiction can claim agency. Using adaptation theory, feminist theory, and theories of agency and autonomy, this project examines how portrayals of female protagonists have changed to accept a multiplicity of strong females, and why we need these different kinds of characters within our culture. Working with the definition of agency as the choices one makes and the subsequent actions she takes, this dissertation examines how female characters from paradigm shifting texts claim agency. Each chapter uses a specific feminist lens to explore literary texts and their film adaptations in order to demonstrate shifting configurations of female agency. Adaptation is important because it creates new meaning through the creation of an adjacent, but distinct text of its own. Therefore female protagonists can claim agency in new and different ways in the film depictions. Each of the four chapters is a specific case study with close readings of specific texts in order to explore the different ways in which women claim agency. Chapter one breaks the Disney princesses into four groups, and uses Simone de Beauvoir’s concepts of dutiful daughter and independent woman, in order to examine how the princess characters have changed and gained agency over time. Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar’s idea of the “angel” versus the “monster” is used in chapter two to examine how fairy tale reboot films allow both the princess and the villainess to both be more complex characters who claim agency. The women of the Harry Potter series are the focus of chapter three, as the chapter explores the varied roles women play and how these women create a postfeminist community. Chapter four looks at Katniss Everdeen from the Hunger Games series, and through a lens of ecofeminism, how she uses the land to her advantage both save her life and shame the government. The dissertation concludes with a brief look at other texts with more diverse characters, and how diversity needs to be another avenue of study in relation to female agency

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A technical view: progress and aesthetic changes in cinematography at the beginning of the 21st century

Tesis inédita de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Ciencias de la Información, leída el 20-09-2019Esta tesis doctoral atiende a la dirección de fotografía, una especialidad en la creacióncinematográfica que recibe escasa atención en los estudios fílmicos. Esta especialidad es la encargada de traducir la visión del director a parámetros técnicos y herramientas que se utilizarán tanto en rodaje como en la postproducción. Para ello, los directores de fotografía recurren a diversas técnicas como la luz, cámara, ópticas y soportes de captación. Éstas se han visto profundamente afectadas por la introducción de la cinematografía digital.Una mirada técnica: avances en dirección de fotografía y cambios estéticos a principios del siglo XXI es una investigación cuantitativa y cualitativa qué cuestiona cuáles han sido los efectos estéticos producidos por los avances técnicos digitales que afectan al trabajo del director de fotografía entre los años 2000 y 2015. Se trata de un estudio que aborda las interacciones entre tecnología y estética a través de su aplicación y evolución cronológica durante un periodo transicional en el que ha habido un cambio drástico en los modelos de producción y postproducción...The main focus of this doctoral thesis is cinematography, a specialized branch within film-making that has received little attention within media studies. Cinematography is thespeciality responsible for translating the ideas of the director into the technical parameters and tools that will be used during both shooting and post-production. In order to do this, directors of photography use a diverse array of tools, such as lighting, the camera, lenses and different image-recording mediums. These have been deeply affected by the introduction of digital cinematography. A Technical View: Progress and Aesthetic Changes in Cinematography at the Beginning of the 21st Century is a quantitative and qualitative study that questions what have been the aesthetic consequences of the development of digital technology for cinematography between the years 2000 and 2015. This work addresses the interaction between technology and aesthetics through their practical use and chronological development during a transitional period in which there have been drastic changes in production and post-production models...Fac. de Ciencias de la InformaciónTRUEunpu